We need to open God’s word and learn it so we can live His truth out and be examples that glorify God. The way we live is so important for our understanding of who we are in Christ. We will always be deceived to believe it’s about us and what we can do, but we are to surrender to God and understand our life is not our own. Jesus didn’t teach us to live for whatever is comfortable to us or pleasing to us, He taught us to die to self.
In Hebrews 3:6 it says, “But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.”
It says “if we”, do we really believe we can do anything we want and not grow to have a true relationship with the Lord. When we accept Jesus as our savior we are saying we want Him to show us the way to live. But then we don’t want to learn form Him or open God’s word and change our life. This is not remaining confident in our hope in Christ. This is saying its sounds good, but I need my stuff first and if I have enough I’ll learn a little to get by. Our walk is real and we must constantly be filling ourselves with wisdom from the Lord. We need to fully trust in the lord and give our time, treasure and talents before we do anything else. This shows that we are confident in what Jesus did for us and we are living a life that is not just for us.
I want to end with us thinking about Galatians 4:8-9 which says, “Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist. So now that you know God (or should, I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak ands useless spiritual principles of the world?”
Open your heart and surrender your will. Amen